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Geim has been Regius Professor of Physics and Royal Society Research Professor at the National Graphene Institute.","He was also previously awarded an Ig Nobel Prize in 2000 for levitating a frog using its intrinsic magnetism. He is the first and only individual, as of 2026, to have received both Nobel and Ig Nobel prizes, for which he holds a Guinness World Record."],"facts":[{"key":"born","label":"Born","values":[{"text":"21 October 1958","date":"1958-10-21"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q104104#P569"}},{"key":"birthplace","label":"Place of birth","values":[{"text":"Sochi","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q39420"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q104104#P19"}},{"key":"citizenship","label":"Citizenship","values":[{"text":"Soviet Union","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15180","end":"1991"},{"text":"Kingdom of the Netherlands","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q29999","end":"2025"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q104104#P27"}},{"key":"occupation","label":"Occupation","values":[{"text":"physicist","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q169470"},{"text":"inventor","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q205375"},{"text":"professor","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q121594"},{"text":"scientist","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q901"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q104104#P106"}},{"key":"education","label":"Education","values":[{"text":"MIPT Department of General and Applied Physics","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4480793"},{"text":"University of Manchester","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q230899"},{"text":"Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1367256"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q104104#P69"}},{"key":"spouse","label":"Spouse","values":[{"text":"Irina Grigorieva","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q64995851"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q104104#P26"}},{"key":"positions","label":"Positions held","values":[{"text":"Regius Professor of Physics (since 2013)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28842683","start":"2013"},{"text":"Langworthy Professor (2007–2013)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6487001","start":"2007","end":"2013"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q104104#P39"}},{"key":"awards","label":"Awards","values":[{"text":"Nobel Prize in Physics","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q38104","date":"2010"},{"text":"Ig Nobel Prize","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q184253","date":"2000"},{"text":"Fellow of the Royal Society","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15631401","date":"2007"},{"text":"Copley Medal","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28003","date":"2013"},{"text":"John J. 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